Have you had a Loire wine recently? I love Loire wines … you can find so much variety in the whites and the reds, with each region presenting so many different soils and varieties of the same varietal. Today City Winery in NYC featured many producers from the Loire, presenting their wines. Above is a [...]

    So have you ever been in the position of blind tasting a lighter bodied, rather fruity wine, with bright red fruit flavors, minerals, and in some cases, a vertical structure? As a student in various wine educational programs, yes, I have – and when faced with several wines fitting this description, it can [...]

What better way to spend a summer weekend than by blinding tasting two whites and out of all the whites in the world, analyzing their variety and origin? Of course, this sort of Sherlock Holmes antics is familiar to students in the Master of Wine program. Typically I ask wine retailers that wine be sent [...]